18th Mar, 2023 9:30 GMT/BST

Spring Fine Sale

 
  Lot 120
 

120

A Sèvres Porcelain Etrusque Tea Service, 1827, painted with a band of flowers within formal gilt foliate borders, stencilled mark in blue with date cypher for 1827, comprising:
1 teapot and cover
1 twin-handled sucrier and cover
2 helmet-shaped milk jugs
12 cups
17 saucers
2 pedestal dishes (35)

A similar Dejeuner service is recorded in the factory records as decorated á guirlandes de fleurs frise d'or and delivered to M Baudouin on 22nd December 1828

Sold for £35,000
Estimated at £3,000 - £5,000


 

Teapot with some light internal staining and wide crazing not visible on the outside. 
Sucrier with two large flat chips to rim of cover and with further chip to flange of cover, rim crack to the side of one handle travelling half way down the base.
One cup with two long hair cracks to the rim. One with a crack across the lower handle terminal. One with a short crack to the rim near the upper handle terminal. One with slight flakes to the foot. 
One saucer with a broken section to the rim professionaly restored. Another with a star crack in the base. Two saucers with a large rim chip. 
One pedestal dish with firing crack to foot.

Some typical minor enamel, gilt and glaze wear.

Teapot 12.5cm high and the same handle to spout. Sucrier 16cm handle to handle 12cm high. Jugs 13.5cm high. Pedestal dishes 21cm diameter. Saucers 15cm diameter.

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Auction: Spring Fine Sale, 18th Mar, 2023

The sale will include a strong offering of European ceramics including a Private Collection of 18th Century Meissen Figures, including examples from the 'Cris de Paris' series, and good examples of Sevres porcelain and biscuit porcelain figures. Further highlights include an exhibition qualilty side cabinet by Gillows, a Private Collection of Welsh Lovespoons, and a Private Collection of Paperweights.

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Sunday 12th March 11am-4pm, Monday 13th March - Friday 17th March 10am-4pm, and the morning of the sale from 8am.

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